FBI Director James Comey prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation."

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Former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee this Thursday will be aired live on national television, making it one of a handful of congressional hearings in history deemed significant enough to broadcast live.

Other such events include the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, the Watergate hearings in 1973, the Iran-contra hearings in 1987, the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991 and President Bill Clinton impeachment hearings in 1998.

Comey will testify before the 15-member Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Republican chairman Richard M. Burr, and will field questions pertaining to his conversations with President Trump in the lead-up to his firing in May. A primary point of inquiry will be whether or not Comey was pressured into ending the FBI investigation into then-national security advisor Michael Flynn.